Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-03
DRAWBACKS 10 THE NATION.

DRAWBACKS 10 THE NATION.
It Cannot Develop while Detectives Hold
Regulations Tor Leading Citizens.
! [Dakota Bell
you wanter know what's holdin' this
country back, d'ye?" said man in
Green River City, Wyoming who had q
beard hike woyen-wire mattress which,
had been struck by a cyclone and
rolled together as q scroll; "you ask
what's holdin' il down." he continued,
as he led me over by faro table which
was not in use; "you desire informa-
ton as to what's retardin' its develop
ment en- causin' it to languish by the
wayside, as it were? I can tell you,
stranger. can sum it up in two
words an give it to you at one dose. 1t
is Eastern detectives -bloodhounds OF
the law, that drag away our most sud
cessful citizens!
what can you expect of q country
where the Eastern detective comes in
and demands acquisitions for all the
leadin' citizens? With the icy hand OF
the detective laid On the Mayors of our
principal cities. how can our country
develop? With the Pennsylvania
Sheriff sneakin' up behind the presi-
dent of our national bank and identi-
fyin' him, how can you look for pro
gress?
Gas long as one of Pinkerton's men
can come into our otherwise peaceful
an prosperous communities, look at a
photograph, an then adjust pair of
time-lock handouts on the principal of
our schools, how can you come among
as an ask us with holler sheer why
we don't boom?
stranger, what is there to induce us
to git up an whoop an develop the
country, with leg irons on the pastor
of the First Baptist Church?
"Why should we invest our money
in business with Sheriff from Massa-
chusetts an detective from Ohio each
with separate warrants an each on a
fast boss chasin' our Probate ledge
acrost the divide?
"Why should feel encouraged an
cheerful with the City Attorney bein'
tried in North Carolina? Would you
yourself feel like settlin' down in a
country an maxim a home with the
Superintendent of the Union Sunday
School gittin' onto the east-bound train
chained to the editor of the mornin'
paper?
"My friend, I don't think you would
[ am positive you would not, specially
if you didn't know but what it might
be your turn next, as you probbly
would.
"This country can never become
thickly and permanently settled as
long as the Eastern officer who has
raked up some old charge agin prom
nent member of the community can
walk in an ply his vocation unre-
strained by the strong arm of the law.
As long as it is possible, while a
meetin' of the leadin' capitalists is
bein' held to devise means for estab-
lishin' wooden factory or to raise a
bonus for a new railroad, as long as it
is possible on such an occasion, I re-
peat, for paid spy from rival town
to sneak in the back door of the hall
an yell: Eastern detective comm =
an then stand and watch the president
of the savin's bank an the Circuit
ledge break their legs as they fall out
of the winder an subsequently git
tramped into the ground by the crowd;
as long as this is possible, I again say,
jes' SO long will progress languish.
"While q man can stand in our the
alter an boiler fret an not cause any
body to look around, an another man
can stampede the audience acrost the
stage by pullin' out paper an pair
of handouts, jes' so long will our
nat'ral resources remain dormant, as it
were.
"When you go into the country
where it is to the peoples interest to
pay a man to stand at the depot an
boiler warnin' to the business men
when stranger gifts off the train, you
may look to find that country unde-
velopsd an not be disap'inted.
"That, my friend, is about all I've
got to say. That is about all there is
to it. If you had, like me, lived to
see the iron hand of the minion of the
law from the other side of the
Mississippi reach up an lay holt of the
Fourth of July orator; if you had seen
it still the Mayor while addressin' the
City Council; if you had ever stood
by an seen it even come into the Sun
day-school picnic, an while the Super
intendent was addressin' the infant
class, reach ruthlessly out an drag him
away on a charge of arson, committed
back in Maine in 1868; if you had ever
witnessed such scenes rs them, say,
you would never have asked why this
country is not built up an made to
prosper. It only shows your ignorance,
an I hope you won't ask any more such
foolish questions"
She Was Jealous.